Babur's death at forty-seven had left Humayun,…

Babur's death at forty-seven had left Humayun, his twenty-two-year-old son and successor, with the task of territorial consolidation of Hindustan.

The new and somewhat feckless emperor’s true interests lie not in conquest but rather in wine, opium, poetry, and astrology.

He fails in 1531 in his first military adventure, the subjugation of the Hindu principality of Kalinjar in Bundelkhand, to the south of Delhi.